Example sentences of "[pron] he did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have |
| 2 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 3 | By which he did ascend . |
| 4 | By which he did ascend . |
| 5 | This was partly self-induced through the precarious complexity of his affairs and his suspicion of dealers , partly imposed by the difficulties implicit in negotiating and getting paid for commissions ( which he did receive despite the title ) and his public notoriety . |
| 6 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 7 | She did n't know at the time about the pictures that had been taken or about some of those activities in which he did take part . |
| 8 | The defendant had some reason for wishing to weigh the boilers ; and he could do so only by obtaining permission from the plaintiff , which he did obtain by promising to return them in good condition . |
| 9 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The referee could have given us two penalties in the first half but the one he did give did n't look much from where I was in the dug-out . |
| 11 | ‘ How about the one he did name ? ’ |
| 12 | He did mention that to me he did say that to me . |
| 13 | On whom he did inflict most grieuous punishment . |
| 14 | Ken tried to make friends if he thought he 'd upset a colleague whom he did respect or value . |
| 15 | sucked it , dog it he did suck it , suck it |
| 16 | And when one came to think of it he did look a little like a clergyman in his dark grey suit , especially when he wore his spectacles . |
| 17 | No I think he , he he did smog . |
| 18 | I thank the Secretary of State for giving way , he he did say that erm er the figures in these report were in a sense provisional at the end of last year , erm but that he feels erm , with the passing of time , nothing has happened to change his view . |
| 19 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 20 | What he did decide , and June did not try to dissuade him , was that he would not go back to school . |
| 21 | I do n't think he introduced any really new ideas , and what he did suggest has n't lasted , but still , in its way , it was effective . |
| 22 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 23 | He paused , seemingly at a loss to say what he did mean . |
| 24 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 25 | But what he did do was to embroider , I fantasise . |
| 26 | Part of me feels sorry for him , despite what he tried to do , what he did do . |
| 27 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 28 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 29 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 30 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |